Penny’s Mother Pleads for Information

THE mother of Penny Hill has made an anguished plea for people to come forward to help solve her daughter’s murder 28 years after her daughter was found unconscious and brutally beaten in a ditch on Cassilis Road near Coolah.

Police have bolstered their efforts to find critical leads by announcing a $1 million reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

Penny Hill was just 20 years of age and had started her first job as a nanny; three days later she was found brutally beaten in a ditch on Cassilis Road near Coolah.

Jeanette Hill described the 28 years since her daughter’s death an unbearable pain.

“There is simply no way to describe the immense agony of losing a child,” Mrs Hill said.

“Every day I am reminded of Penny, of the tragic way in which she was taken from us, and of the life she never got to live,” she said.

“It has been almost three decades that we have been searching for answers and once again we ask that anyone in the community who might know what happened to our daughter, please come forward and help police,” she said.

“Our family, and our Penny need peace,” Jeanette Hill said.

Detective Acting Superintendent Mark Henney, Homicide Squad Commander, said after 28 years, the Hill family deserve closure.

“Penny had only just moved to Coolah – to begin her first job as a nanny at the Black Stump Motel – just three days before her body was found,” Det A/Supt Henney said.

“Detectives have made a number of public appeals to the community for any information that could help investigators solve this horrific murder,” he said.

“Over the years, a number of leads have been pursued and today’s reward is another opportunity to appeal to those people in the community who have information about Penny’s death to come forward,” he said.

“We are committed to getting justice for Penny and providing answers for her family,” Det A/Supt Henney said.

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